LJ Create Design and Technlogy

Innovative STEM program to teach career pathways.
A huge library of content impacts every aspect of STEM education.
LJ Create Design & Technology

LJ Create's CTE program offers a diverse range of industry-focussed disciplines that will help your students prepare for college and career. With resources that relate to the Energy Sector, Manufacturing, and Electronics our program helps students connect their learning to real-world applications.

Curriculum Hardware

“One of the benefits of the program for the students is that it encourages them to do more critical thinking and problem-solving; they really have to think about their answers.”
- Mr. Leavernard Jones, Technology Teacher

Design and Technology Foundation Courses (Grades 6-10)

The program provides:

  • 19 projects over 200 lesson periods
  • Active learning approach
  • Content aligned to standards
  • Extensive teacher support material
  • Flexible implementation
  • Learning management system
  • Additional content library
  • Extension projects

Benefits

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Complete Online Resource

Full range of learning content, including lesson plans, presentations, and assessments available online – login anytime anywhere!

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Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and much more!

Help your students grow a passion for STEM with over 500 student-led, hands-on activities. These activities lead students into developing a creative solution to an open-ended project.

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Design, Construct and Program with a truly SMART Engineering Construction Kit!

If you can imagine it, you can build it with an innovative engineering construction kit that is Sophisticated, Motivating, Adaptable, Robust, Terrific!

With over 450 parts including motors, sensors and a programmable control unit to work with, the design possibilities are limitless.

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Drag and Drop Your Way to Programming Perfection

The models you build with the Engineering Construction Kit can be programmed using easy-to-use flowchart software – turn your students into programming wizards!

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Continually Updated

Our team of curriculum creators is continually adding new content to the program. Look out for these new features each time you log on. Your feedback is important to us and drives us continually to improve the content you receive, and the way in which you receive it.

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Supporting YOUR State Standards

We apply a magnifying glass to EVERY student expectation to ensure our lessons apply to the standards that YOU teach.

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Written with Teachers in Mind

Our content creators have all been involved in the teaching profession at some stage in their careers and they know exactly what teachers need – instructional content that is easy to implement in the classroom.

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Support, Support… Support!

At the heart of our learning content is a fully integrated support system. Every lesson includes easy access to academic and technical subject support. Teachers - If something goes wrong or you can’t find the answer online, we are only a phone call away.

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Active Learning

Our active learning program is composed of creative hands-on tasks and interactive virtual software that work together flawlessly to create exciting lessons and environments where students can actively engage in their own learning.

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Simulators that Help you Prepare for Standardized Testing

Our engaging simulators give students a taste of what it means to think like a scientist or engineer. They allow students to explore, experiment, and test their own ideas in a range of different scenarios that they would not normally get to experience in the classroom.

“This was the most exciting STEM lesson I have ever taken. The magnetic levitation challenge was really cool. I had lots of fun trying to make my train the fastest.”
- Robert, middle school student

Create Your Own Flexible Program

17 STEM Cources

Engineering Design Course

Identify the engineering design process and apply it in problem solving. Design and build an automated railroad crossing.

Construction Engineering Course

Explore structural design and construction materials. Design, build, and test bridges.

Electronics Technology Course

Investigate the principles and application of electronic systems. Design, build, and test a control system.

Mass Transportation Course

Investigate and develop a mass transit system model. Design and test crash-protection systems.

Manufacturing Technology Course

Explore material properties and manufacturing processes. Design and develop a plastic component for mass production.

Mechatronics Course

Explore the core principles of mechatronics. Design, build, and program a fairground ride.

Computer Science (Mechatronics)

Explore techniques for algorithm development. Develop programs to control an elevator.

Programming Robots Course

Program a range of articulated robot forms. Design a new humanoid robot.

Transportation Technology Course

Explore the core principles and applications of technology in transportation. Design, build, and program an automated vehicle.

Rapid Manufacturing Course

Explore rapid prototyping and tooling techniques. Design and develop a new component suitable for mass production.

Biomedical Technology Course

Explore applications of science and technology in medicine. Design, build, and program a medical scanner.

Industrial Robotics Course

Investigate concepts and applications of industrial robotics. Design and develop an industrial robotic system.

Agricultural Technology Course

Explore the impact of technology in modern agriculture. Design, build, and program automated agricultural machines.

Mobile Robotics Course

Investigate mobile robotic concepts and applications. Design and build an AGV robot.

Energy in Buildings Course

Explore how energy is used in buildings. Design, build, and test environmental systems.

Computer Science (Robotics) Course

Develop core computer science and programming principles. Design, build, and program robotic systems.

Energy Generation Course

Explore fossil fuels, wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear power. Use a simulator to model strategies for sustainable power.

CTE Curriculum

Over 400 hours of STEM-based lessons!

Our comprehensive Design and Technology lesson library contains over 400 STEM lessons, which are available any time, anywhere online.

The way in which we deliver our content is INCREDIBLY flexible:

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Courses

These courses are custom-made to meet specific requirements, such as ITEEA, NGSS and CCSS. They provide a comprehensive set of lessons for a complete program of study and are supplemented with a range of support materials for English and Math.

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Libraries (Exploring STEM Library)

This huge collection of Middle and High School resources is called our Exploring STEM Library...with this library you can have access to EVERY SINGLE piece of learning content for Middle and High School that we have ever published! This resource is ideal for teachers to search and make their own courses.

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Hardware Resource Library

Each one of our pre-prepared hardware kits comes with a set of lesson content as standard to help you get the most out of our hands-on lessons.

Our Engineering Construction Kit, for example, includes access (via DVD and online) to comprehensive practical tasks that use the kit to teach the principles of mechatronics, mobile robotics, engineering design, and much more!

Our Lessons - in detail!

Career and Technical Education Program

Presentations

Comprehensive, informative, insightful. Our presentations provide students with the knowledge they need to grasp the key STEM concepts in our Exploring STEM program. Our presentations are completely narrated with subtitles for the hard of hearing.

CTE Curriculum

Practical Tasks

Hands-on activities linked to theoretical resources that allow students to develop active learning skills.

Career and Technical Education Program

Investigations

Exciting, inquiring, tactile. A range of skills development activities, including virtual workshop and laboratory tasks, on-screen equipment explorers and problem-solving tasks. Again, these lessons are fully narrated.

CTE Online Curriculum

Simulators

At the heart of the Exploring STEM program are our exciting inquiry-based digital investigations and simulators. These lessons are our favorites; they’ve been designed by our experts to provide an introduction to the real-world application of STEM without having to leave the classroom.

Online CTE Curriculum

Assessments

Thought-provoking, challenging, versatile. Assess student understanding of every topic in a supportive way that clearly identifies the correct answer to each question once it has been attempted.

Career and Technical Education Program

The Best of the Rest

Our lessons are mapped to YOUR standards. They contain integrated Math and English Support Materials. Effortlessly search through our lessons and support materials… by keyword, by standard or by topic.

Learning Management System

LJ Create CTE CurriculumOur Learning Management System automatically tracks and records the progress and attainment of your students, and the school’s progress overall. You can see how much time students spend on each module, how often they log in, and instantly see records of their grades across the program.

The LMS gives the teacher control over the construction of courses, allowing them to be tailored for their students, and includes extensive student-tracking and reporting, adding up to a world-leading solution to your learning-providing needs.

CTE Hardware

Each course in the Design and Technology program contains open-ended design project briefs. You can choose from a variety of different equipment packs that will aid your students in their preparation to complete these project briefs.

We understand that the cost of consumables can make project-based learning an expensive option. We have deliberately selected project activities that do not require a large investment in consumable items. Many of the Design and Technology projects require no consumables at all.

These unique hardware kits can be used for a variety of extensive student activities that includes research, discussion, modelling, simulation, practical design and testing.

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“I love this class! It's so much fun using the presentations and making things work!”
- Sierra, middle school student

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Design and Technology

LJ Create's Exploring STEM provides practical activities and real-world problem-solving tasks in the classroom. Investigate, design, build, and program robotic and automated machinery across a wide range of areas of technology.